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When you get chance please wrap it is a desktop app, it's the sort of app I'd keep running like Tweetbot. Oh and well done! A competitor to Google News is great. The main problem I have with Google News is that it is always a few steps behind Twitter. It's really good if you're out of the loop, but behind the times if you're tracking a new story.
Very nice! Any idea why the image from the NYT article "United Nations General Assembly Convenes in New York" is so low quality?
There are usually reems of ToS about this kinda syndication on the websites like the NYT.
When you get chance please wrap it is a desktop app, it's the sort of app I'd keep running like Tweetbot. Oh and well done! A competitor to Google News is great. The main problem I have with Google News is that it is always a few steps behind Twitter. It's really good if you're out of the loop, but behind the times if you're tracking a new story.
Does Nativefier help you? https://github.com/jiahaog/Nativefier
I really like this! The only comment I'd make is to make the sidebar static so it stays there when you scroll down. Would be nice to switch topics quickly after I'm done skimming through headlines of another topic. Other than that I love it.
Not to sound nit-picky, but it seems easier to justify if it serves a purpose other than branding.
I guess I don't consider "most shares" a good way to rank. Bush, Obama, then Trump always are at the top unless some other celebrity does something big.
Looks really nice, good job!
I often miss the news for a day (too busy) or a week (traveling/camping) and then want to catch up. Also sometimes I avoid the news for a day because I'm avoiding a sporting event spoiler. Most websites/newspapers are geared toward today and don't let you easily see what they looked like yesterday or a week ago. Even better would be allowing a time range and being able to see the top news during that time period.
Some basic filtering would be nice too. For example, I might want to see a politics-free feed, but right now that would require looking at three different categories. It would be nice if each category had a checkbox next to it, and clicking on the label selected the category and clicking on the checkbox deactivated it when no category is selected. Also it would be nice to be able to add search strings that would remove items, so I could add "Trump" to a list and not see any articles with that in the headline (or maybe in the summary). As it is now under Business I'd still get a lot of Trump-related news.
Also curious why you chose to have some feeds off by default.
I really like this! The only comment I'd make is to make the sidebar static so it stays there when you scroll down. Would be nice to switch topics quickly after I'm done skimming through headlines of another topic. Other than that I love it.
On that note, if the top bar is going to remain static, it might be worth putting some functionality in it on the desktop view so it's not just taking up screen space. Not to sound nit-picky, but it seems easier to justify if it serves a purpose other than branding.
> Then it ranks it HN/Reddit style using social shares as upvotes. Where do you get the social shares? I don't see any share buttons on the webpage?
I have been using Twitter lists, and simply adding the "breaking news" twitter accounts for a number of news sources...and this seems similar to that...however, I like this better! Great job! The only thing i would suggest is as others have noted: you might want to enable the feature for adding custom sources. Cheers!